Shamsud-Din Jabbar acted alone, FBI says [Video]

New Orleans: The US Army veteran who deliberately drove into a crowd of New Year’s revellers in New Orleans joined the Islamic State terrorist group last year but appears to have acted alone in conducting his deadly attack.

According to the FBI, Shamsud-Din Jabbar also made a series of videos just before he deliberately ran over partygoers on Bourbon Street this week – including one in which he declared he wanted to kill family and friends but was worried that news headlines wouldn’t focus enough on “believers and disbelievers”.

Two days after one of the worst terrorist attacks on US soil since September 11, the FBI has walked back its initial suggestion that Jabbar may have been working with others when he embarked on the rampage that …